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12 July, the end of DE LIC JaW the morningol Thursday 14Juls. written instruction from the UP# not the only to esume bocal morsiog ar rived. The head postmaster was Tines also in reccipt of ibe instruction Fi san la Grunwick mail. I refused, relling himt I had arranged a meeting of Lord Chief Justice Widgery ruled last week in favour of the Grunwick strikers, conciliation service ACAS. Was this proof that the law Is on the side of the workers?
That mass pickets and other forms of solidarity action are unnecessary to win strikes? That Instead workers instruggle should rely on the wisdom and gemerosity of the law?
Amids all the legal comings and goings the Labour Gavernment nas mude no secret anere LI *The law is made to be observed. There is no doubt abour thar, said Secretary of State for Indusury Eric Varley on Cricklewood affair.
When settiog up the bourt of inquity on 30 June, Employment Secretary Albert Booth called for chese it miticad to breaches picketing bo It is likely that Booth, Varle and Rees welcored last week's Fin Court sudgement They are The congratulated Widgery And the reason this top people's paper" did so is very interessing.
SIGNIFICANT It assured its readers that "as TAr 1, runwick's seif is COc corned' the judgemens "has no dramatic 00080union did not win very much. But the benefics the judgement gave to the foroe ot inw and order sere semi Widgery Thas refrained frea tucine on ACAS a ludica! stigana which would have good far towards destroying its credit esefulness," The Times annoudIn ocher words the law must be seen lo be imparcial or people The Wails Mirror's cintorial DI 13 July took up the same theme commented "The trades unions won a significant hatile This Victory for industrial democracy contaios an their union APEX, and the important lesson for the unicas They do nol gel unfavourabl treatment from the courts.
Another welcome move is the promise by Emploment sere cary Albert Honth to reform the antiquated laws op The sponer this 1s dono the beiter, Perhape now, peace, order and will prevail in the bitter Grunwick di There in a nursbell is the rater af the Widgery judgement for the ruling class. It can be used lo prove the "law" is impartial, and then the "law" can be used to take away the right of mass picketing So against the 'victors' of the Widgery judgement weiched, all the arrests, all th 2WACAS КУ TR МОНСС СС TO of lepal action lo scop the boycot! of Grunwick mail, and now the picketing The more immediate reasan #hy Widgery found in the SEUNEE following by Arthur Scargill: It may be co incidental, but wica peone ant in dispute and puting pressure oi, colets of inquiry bave a habit favour than when things have gose back to normal.
The Granwick strikers have Widgery changes litrle, except to present the strikers with a 'mora PALOTY But morn victories are. Little good when a bus load of scab drives TOUSENC Grunwick procected by the law every day. What is needed in tha stunrion is pickers, thousands o thean